Polish President Andrzej Duda has said that Prime Minister Mateusz Marowiecki’s words that Warsaw is “no longer transferring weapons to Ukraine” were taken out of context, TVN24 reported on Thursday.
“In my opinion, the prime minister simply said this: we are not going to transfer to Ukraine the new weapons that we are now buying as part of the modernization of the Polish army,” the Polish president explained.
According to Duda, “We both had the same position. We cannot hand over to someone else our new weapons, which we are now buying for billions of dollars for the Polish army to strengthen it, to strengthen Poland’s security. To anyone.”
Duda specified that those contracts on Polish arms, which Poland signed with Ukraine, will be fulfilled.
At the same time, he recalled that contracts with Ukraine have been signed, including for the delivery of Polish self-propelled howitzers Krab. “We need to fulfill this contract, and we are fulfilling it,” Duda said, adding that there are other contracts concerning ammunition and demining equipment.
“As we receive new armaments from Korea, from the United States, we will also replace the armaments that are now in storage,” Duda said, noting that such armaments could be sent to Ukraine “as we did before, transferring post-Soviet armaments.”
